1916 D Mercury Dime In Great

Clockman1960- You need to post pictures like these. Except your coin needs a D!

Actually you really need to take closer and better photos. Do not handle a possible valuable coin like that with your bare hands. And if it is a D mint, it is not clear. That coin could be a Phily but just not clear enough to tell. Even if not a D, in that condition, still worth a lot. But if really a D, then you have something worth thousands of dollars. What did you pay for that?

Clockman , your coin seems to have some rim damage on reverse between 7 and 10:00 but your photos are much to small to positively identify .

Some follow up comments.

Your coin appears to be too nice to NOT have been slabbed already by the dealer. At first glance, even through the crappy photos, it appears to be at least in extra fine to almost uncirculated condition. If so, and if it's a real 16-D dime, it would be worth multiple thousands of dollars.

Why would a dealer sell you a coin like this unslabbed? Dealers do not like leaving money on the table.

My guess is there are significant problems with this coin. It may be damaged, altered or just an outright counterfeit. I also suspect that the dealer knows that the coin has problems that would prevent it from slabbing. That's why he was quick to unload it as is.

Until you post better pictures I don't see how we can help you.

This could be one of those coins where a 16-P (or S) obverse was mated with a D mint reverse. That could explain the seam that can be seen around the rim on the reverse side of the coin.

The OP wanted some "insight" as to this coin. Our red flags went up for several reasons. One question we (naturally) would have is why would someone buy such a key-date high end coin, and then want "insight" to it? It's like buying a Ferrari and then wanted to learn how to drive. If you were knowledgeable about this high end coin, you would know not to handle it with your bare hands. It's like a piece of high end jewelry, and should be handled as such with cotton gloves. So please excuse us when we immediately think the coin is not genuine. And as pointed out, if real, why would a coin dealer not himself have such a rare valuable coin graded by a TPG service? Grading adds value. Everything isn't adding up, BUT we could be wrong, and we hope for your sake you did just get an incredible deal and we are just too skeptical (we do see a lot of fakes). It would be extremely helpful if you would kindly submit better photos of your coin here to us, enlarged showing both sides of the coin. If you are certain it's the real deal, you really should submit it asap to PCGS or NGC to verify it as real and to guard your investment. Please keep us informed, and best of luck to you!

@merclover:

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